Janneke M. van der ZwaanVirginia DignumCatholijn M. Jonker
An important task for empathic agents is to provide social support, that is, to help alleviate emotional distress. In this paper, we select five types of verbal social support (sympathy, compliment, encouragement, advice, and teaching) and present our implementation in a prototype dialogue agent.
in this paper taqi modarresi’s life and his works are discussed briefly. he is one of the early persian writers in diaspora who left iran decades before the islamic revolution. his novels have been published both in english and persian. azra-ye khalvatneshin [the virgin of solitude], which was published posthumously in an english translation in 2008 and in the original persian in 2010, both in...
